but it's not! if you're drunk, it won't start. if you're not drunk, it's start, but if you get drunk at any point, next time it orders you to pull over, it won't start again. if you refuse to pull over when it orders you to, the police will know about it, and eventually you'll lose your license forever/pay a fine.
this is slightly OT, but since I am growing increasingly tired of people self-diagnosing with horrible mental disorders based on their mild and perfectly normal (for a human) imperfections, I encourage you to read this, and then decide whether or not you are likely to actually have ADD: http://edschool.csuhayward.edu/departments/ted/instruction/howe/5500/ADD-DSM-IV.html
yeah, you try being the politician who proposes or endorses a plan to build a nuclear reactor at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. I'm sure you'll get shitloads of votes come election day...
you're absolutely right about the shift from generalists to specialists, though i'd like to point out that that seems inevitable. arthur c clarke foresaw the same thing in the final odyssey, though he thought it'd happen 1000 years later than it actually is, and his reasoning was the same - as human knowledge grows, and the complexity of every piece of technology increases with it, eventually it'll be impossible for a single human being to know more than absolutely necessary to accomplish a specific task he's been trained for.
if I told you "that man threw shit at me!", you'd probably be reluctant to believe me. if I said "that monkey threw shit at me!", you might find that easier to accept. that double standard has to go! [for the analogical reasoning impaired, what i mean is that the term "double standard" only applies when two parties are judged/treated differently on the basis of something that is irrelevant to the issue at hand. one could argue that the chinese govt is more likely to be involved in a conspiracy like this than the u.s., and hence it is not a double standard to treat accusations of conspiracies more seriously when they involve china. note that i am not claiming to have evidence suggesting that such a difference truly exists.]
sadly, some juries are so fundamentally moronic that directly getting snatched from home may have been the less frustrating (and no more unjust) method of ending up in jail for some people.
when you said you "tried" chrome, what exactly did you mean? if you mean that you opened it, saw that there was no immediately obvious counterpart to some ff feature that you frequently use, and concluded that chrome UI sucks, then i have good news for you - you probably just missed it. chrome ui is fairly intuitive, incredibly complete (if you have the patience to try to get used to it), and best of all leaves you a good 40-60px extra vertical space (or more), which is the main reason why i switched from ff to chrome recently.
i think what they mean is that the overall user experience seems/is faster with simpler UI, which is IMHO undeniably true. no need to start picking on words here.
too streamlined? i'm not sure what that means. nothing i ever do with my browser takes more time/is harder in chrome than ff, and i have a lot more real estate in chrome without sacrificing functionality. how is your experience different?
it's not an obsession. it may seem counterintuitive, but it's been shown that very small lags do, in fact, affect user experience, even if the user himself doesn't realize it. i don't know if 0.1 seconds would make a difference, but i'm fairly certain a number in the 0.5 range does. (can't find relevant citation at the moment)
try this on for size: the holocaust never happened, and gays suck (pun intended). see what i did there? and guess what? neither i, nor slashdot, have been or will be sued for this! that's freedom of speech. just because the NYT might not want to publish hate speech because they're interested in selling their newspapers (or good journalism. either one works.) doesn't mean you're not free to express yourself, anonymously, without fear of retribution.
Slashdot Mirror
that's a work in progress, trust me. just come to the robotics institute orientation at cmu, you'll see.
but it's not! if you're drunk, it won't start. if you're not drunk, it's start, but if you get drunk at any point, next time it orders you to pull over, it won't start again. if you refuse to pull over when it orders you to, the police will know about it, and eventually you'll lose your license forever/pay a fine.
no you don't. RTFA. there are random restarts while you're driving. if you do start the car then drink, you'll be stranded in the middle of your ride.
and what's wrong with that? it needs to be a pain in the ass, that's the whole point.
hours of video with an elephant in the room
bring in some kids to play with the elephant, and you have yourself a youtube hit!
well, then, good for you, i suppose...
this is slightly OT, but since I am growing increasingly tired of people self-diagnosing with horrible mental disorders based on their mild and perfectly normal (for a human) imperfections, I encourage you to read this, and then decide whether or not you are likely to actually have ADD: http://edschool.csuhayward.edu/departments/ted/instruction/howe/5500/ADD-DSM-IV.html
yeah, you try being the politician who proposes or endorses a plan to build a nuclear reactor at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. I'm sure you'll get shitloads of votes come election day...
all true, and besides, even today there are many populated areas in the world that are probably as, if not more, dangerous for humans as chernobyl - http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1661031,00.html
you're absolutely right about the shift from generalists to specialists, though i'd like to point out that that seems inevitable. arthur c clarke foresaw the same thing in the final odyssey, though he thought it'd happen 1000 years later than it actually is, and his reasoning was the same - as human knowledge grows, and the complexity of every piece of technology increases with it, eventually it'll be impossible for a single human being to know more than absolutely necessary to accomplish a specific task he's been trained for.
what if making that sammich took you several weeks' (months? years?) of work, as is probably the case with most musical compositions?
Infotopia. read it.
according to larry niven, there's a special place in hell for those kinds of "environmentalists" (see Inferno)
if I told you "that man threw shit at me!", you'd probably be reluctant to believe me. if I said "that monkey threw shit at me!", you might find that easier to accept. that double standard has to go! [for the analogical reasoning impaired, what i mean is that the term "double standard" only applies when two parties are judged/treated differently on the basis of something that is irrelevant to the issue at hand. one could argue that the chinese govt is more likely to be involved in a conspiracy like this than the u.s., and hence it is not a double standard to treat accusations of conspiracies more seriously when they involve china. note that i am not claiming to have evidence suggesting that such a difference truly exists.]
sadly, some juries are so fundamentally moronic that directly getting snatched from home may have been the less frustrating (and no more unjust) method of ending up in jail for some people.
well, to be fair, it sounds like you were at a white collar prison... i don't think maximum security is that nice (at least no hdtv, i'd expect).
when you said you "tried" chrome, what exactly did you mean? if you mean that you opened it, saw that there was no immediately obvious counterpart to some ff feature that you frequently use, and concluded that chrome UI sucks, then i have good news for you - you probably just missed it. chrome ui is fairly intuitive, incredibly complete (if you have the patience to try to get used to it), and best of all leaves you a good 40-60px extra vertical space (or more), which is the main reason why i switched from ff to chrome recently.
i think what they mean is that the overall user experience seems/is faster with simpler UI, which is IMHO undeniably true. no need to start picking on words here.
too streamlined? i'm not sure what that means. nothing i ever do with my browser takes more time/is harder in chrome than ff, and i have a lot more real estate in chrome without sacrificing functionality. how is your experience different?
it's not an obsession. it may seem counterintuitive, but it's been shown that very small lags do, in fact, affect user experience, even if the user himself doesn't realize it. i don't know if 0.1 seconds would make a difference, but i'm fairly certain a number in the 0.5 range does. (can't find relevant citation at the moment)
umm, blackboard works just fine in my chrome...
where's that from?
you're forgetting that all this expensive technology was at least partially developed to avoid mistakes leading to civilian casualties.
totally. next up, weed *fingers crossed*
try this on for size: the holocaust never happened, and gays suck (pun intended). see what i did there? and guess what? neither i, nor slashdot, have been or will be sued for this! that's freedom of speech. just because the NYT might not want to publish hate speech because they're interested in selling their newspapers (or good journalism. either one works.) doesn't mean you're not free to express yourself, anonymously, without fear of retribution.